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_jcrossley

139 karma · joined November 20, 2020

Ex-Apple/Google/Lyft iOS engineer and classical guitarist. Two successful iOS sideprojects (Pixelist Habit Tracker, Mujo Music Practice Journal).
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_jcrossley··on Ask HN: I am overflowing with ideas but never finish anything
Oh absolutely agreed. It's a process to work with a psychiatrist, and if it is ADHD, medication isn't right for everyone.
_jcrossley··on Ask HN: I am overflowing with ideas but never finish anything
Speaking as someone whose partner is a psychiatrist, popping in to echo that 1) it may or may not be ADHD, 2) only a doctor 1:1 can diagnose you, and 3) if it is, medication works wonders for many people.
_jcrossley··on Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
Keeping TikTok around. It’s actually a very good platform, just needs major damage control on trust and privacy.
_jcrossley··on Vice Media to be Acquired by George Soros and Fortress
Highly recommend the documentary “Goodnight, Brooklyn” if anyone loves indie/punk music and is still unconvinced of how hypocritical Vice is. It shows the artist space Death By Audio being forced out as Vice sets up their new HQ in Williamsburg. Great concert footage.
_jcrossley··on Journalist writes about discovering she’d been surveilled by TikTok
Call me crazy, but I’d love to see Apple acquire ByteDance. They’re the only company that I feel the public trusts with privacy, have the same level of cachet, operate globally, and don’t have a social media arm.
_jcrossley··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
The YouTube videos and screenshots look incredible for a hobby project! Are you still working on it? What’s next?
_jcrossley··on ‘Hot Ones’ Was a Slow Burn All Along
Love this show! The quality of the interviews reminds me of Narduar, who does incredible background research before interviewing musicians. Highly recommended if you like that aspect of Hot Ones
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
:D So happy to hear! It’s definitely built for the no-distractions mindset. Great idea to update for PNLs!
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
Thank you!! Is the problem that it's too easy to tap Theme, and it's annoying to then cycle through all?
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
Thanks! Hope it sticks for you. To replace my paper bullet journal, I wanted to stay far away from social, subscriptions, notifications, etc etc.
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
Thanks, I'd love to open-source it someday! It's a beautiful mess.
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
I’ve had several requests for this. If/when I pick it up, it’s on the shortlist :)
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
Thanks! Really appreciate it <3
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
It doesn’t, but that’s a clever idea!
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
100% up to you. All of my habits are different, but usually for me it’s something like “I did it / I did it well / I did it great”.
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
Awesome!! Thanks for finding that, I was wondering where the (very few) daily crashes are coming from. And thanks, hope it’s useful for you!
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
Hm, I’m not sure what adds up to 25MB but overall it’s very lean on dependencies - essentially just RxSwift. It might also be the Swift runtime, which used to be bundled into binaries before ABI stability.
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
Thanks so much - you’re right, I think it’s about time to finally create a product page. Also thanks for the pointer, the everyday calendar looks great!
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
Wow, thank you! It’s been years since I’ve touched the app, and I would’ve sworn it already did that. Will dust it off!
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
+1, I’ve heard great things and I don’t think I should try to compete
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
Not yet :( But maybe with GPT4!
_jcrossley··on Show HN: An all-in-one app designed for deep work and to build atomic habits
Apologies if this is uncouth, but if anyone wants the opposite of this product, check out Pixelist on the App Store: it’s a 100% free and private, extremely minimalist habit tracker. I’m terrible at marketing (my Show HN had zero response) but it’s had a growing organic user base that seems to love it.
_jcrossley··on Ask HN: Anyone doing some absurd stuff after getting laid off?
I’m taking some time to study classical guitar with a private teacher at ~conservatory level. Feels like my form of “quitting tech to work on a farm”.

I’ll also work on my own personal projects and see if any of them can gain enough momentum as a lifestyle business to avoid returning to soul-sucking BigTech.

_jcrossley··on Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?
Came to say the same thing - plus, there's a great 100 Days of SwiftUI as well, which gets nontrivial apps running pretty quickly.
_jcrossley··on Just: A Command Runner
Hey, this is really cool! Coincidentally I’ve been doing something really similar with `alias j=‘make -f ~/Makefile’` for a single giant makefile across multiple projects; I also combine it with fzf to allow fuzzy-searching for target names.
_jcrossley··on Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?
I helped build V1 of https://www.balanceapp.com as part of a small team. Meditation is a super crowded space, but it’s a lifestyle habit that I really believe in. Proud that it’s reached a fair number of people, even if it isn’t as well known as the competitors
_jcrossley··on [dead]
Interesting. I still firmly wouldn't work there, but you have a point
_jcrossley··on Let's make the web personal again
Yes please. With the “creator culture” from TikTok etc, I think if personal sites could be made _that_ easy and fun, they’d come back in fashion. Personally I’m ready for MySpace 2.0
_jcrossley··on Wavelets: A mathematical microscope [video]
Absolutely excellent. Thanks for sharing, I wish I had videos like this when I studied in undergrad.
_jcrossley··on Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
Excellent!! I'll have to look into that Mearns arrangement of BWV 1007. I worked on that one for my RCM 8 exam - shameless plug, but a "final" recording from this time period is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpTm_J8p9eU It's far from perfect, but I'm proud of where I got it

Would love to connect over YT / Twitch / whatever and follow your journey! Happy trails to you too

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